bubbly and lovely: i'm too poor for therapy.
been there and back again. too many thoughts and opinions and hormones get me in trouble.
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6.12.2002
hmm...
from 10 june monday washington post:
Vocabulary and Kids' 'Amnesia'
Psychologists may have found a clue to why people tend to have a very hard time remembering things
from very early childhood -- a phenomenon known as "childhood amnesia." New research suggests that
children can only describe memories of events using words they knew when the experience occurred.
Gabrielle Simcock and Harlene Hayne of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, visited 2- and
3-year-old children at home to play a game with a device they called the magic shrinking machine. They
showed the child how to operate the machine by pulling down a lever, which activated an array of lights
on the front. A researcher then placed a toy inside and turned a handle on the side, which produced a
series of unique noises. When the sound stopped, the children were shown how to remove a smaller but
identical toy from inside the box. The researchers also tested the children's vocabulary.
When the researchers returned a year later, the children easily remembered how to operate the device,
but the children were only able to describe the machine using words they knew when they first learned how
to operate it.
"In no instance did a child verbally report information about the event that was not part of his or her
productive vocabulary at the time of encoding," the researchers wrote in the May 3 issue of the journal
Psychological Science. "We conclude that language development plays a pivotal role in childhood amnesia."
...and i just realized after posting it that it's from researchers in new zealand. this is the local otago paper i read to keep up with things in the south island. *sigh* bad days like today make me a hardcore daydreamer about moving there...
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